I think you are correct when thinking about the long term future of the ecosystem, but if your business gets crushed because you can't advertise on Google then it doesn't feel so good.
Engineers on Hacker News don't understand how much of the advertising world runs through Google. Not being able to advertise on Google is like saying you can't do any backend engineering at your company you can only do front end.
Cool, enjoy getting almost no new business creation in the world. I'm sure you will love living in a world where incumbents pretty much have total control over everything.
Engineers on Hacker News don't understand how much of the advertising world runs through Google. Not being able to advertise on Google is like saying you can't do any backend engineering at your company you can only do front end.